Why You'll Love This Role

As a Principal Software Engineer at Cribl, you will work closely with Product, Operations, and other business functions while collaborating with your team to deliver end-to-end features and functionality for Cribl Lake. You will leverage your experience and expertise to contribute significantly to the team's success and help build towards the best outcomes. This role offers the opportunity to tackle product-related challenges and requirements, playing a key role in the design, implementation, and rollout of new features.

 

As an Active Member of our Team, You Will…

• Contribute to the technical direction and architecture of Cribl Lake, focusing on scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement product roadmaps and objectives
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers
• Identify and address technical debt, ensuring the long-term health of the codebase
• Contribute to the development of best practices and engineering standards within the team
• Optimize and extend the capabilities of Cribl Lake, leveraging your expertise in distributed systems and cloud technologies

 

If You’ve Got It, We Want It

• Strong track record of writing clean, maintainable, and testable code (Node.js/TypeScript)
• Significant experience in complex development environments, especially in large-scale highly available distributed systems and SaaS platforms
• Solid expertise in developing resilient and scalable backend services on cloud providers, preferably AWS
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, Linux, and distributed systems
• Experience using assertion frameworks and tools like Mocha, Cypress, Jest to automate regression checks
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with a track record of learning quickly
• Dedication to elegant and high-quality software

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience mentoring junior engineers
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as BitBucket, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.
• Experience implementing various cloud design patterns
• Knowledge of serverless / lambda-based implementations
• Willingness to share ideas and contribute to team discussions
• Appreciation for humor and a love for goats
• Comfort working remotely

 

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